"I don't know either. It's probably an isolated case. Since you want to eat braised pork knuckle, I'll go buy you some."
After saying that, Mo Chen reminded her, "Take good care of Yueyue. I'll be back soon."
Mo Chen prepared to use spatial displacement to leave a coordinate and then flash back to the apartment. The spatial coordinate would make it easier for him to return to Xiangshan.
"How are you going to buy it—"
Before Zhou Qian could finish speaking, Mo Chen had already disappeared from her sight.
Zhou Qian: "..."
Liu Yueyue smiled and explained, "Mo Chen has spatial abilities, so he should be home buying you braised pork knuckle now. How about it? Don't you feel happy?"
"Huh? That's amazing?"
Zhou Qian's beautiful eyes widened in disbelief. How come I didn't know Mo Chen was so powerful? What a heartless jerk! He forgot about his childhood friend as soon as he got Yueyue. A typical example of someone who forgets their friends for the sake of beauty.
"Is she jealous again?"
Liu Yueyue knew exactly what Zhou Qian was thinking and guessed it right away.
"Hmph!"
It would have been better if she hadn't said anything; saying it only made her angrier.
"Alright, alright. Why are you jealous? If he didn't care about you, would he have gone out of his way to buy you braised pork knuckle?" Liu Yueyue said earnestly. "You're his childhood friend. He's actually been hesitant to confess because he has some reservations about you."
"What concerns?"
Zhou Qian finally perked up. She also wanted to understand this matter.
"He's usually quite smart. How come he's so clumsy in this regard?" Liu Yueyue said. "He's mainly afraid that you two won't end up together and that you won't even be able to remain friends anymore. Since ancient times, very few childhood friends who become lovers have a good ending."
"This..."
Zhou Qian hadn't expected it to be for this reason.
"So... don't be jealous anymore. Isn't it nice for the three of us to be together?" Liu Yueyue said softly, hugging Zhou Qian.
Only when the three of them were together would Liu Yueyue not lose her friendship for love.
"You..."
Zhou Qian looked at Liu Yueyue in shock, unable to believe that these were the words of her childhood friend. But after thinking for a moment, she fell silent.
After a moment, she seemed to have figured it out and said with a "wronged" look, "Then you're not allowed to bully me anymore!"
"How could I possibly bully you, you idiot!"
"Whee..."
The two sisters then embraced and made up, their resentment completely gone.
Five minutes later.
"Oh? Are you two doing lesbian stuff?"
A sudden voice sounded, and Mo Chen appeared in front of the two, carrying a large food box.
Zhou Qian's breakfast had been bought.
"Ah, I smell braised pork knuckle!"
Zhou Qian pushed Liu Yueyue aside and rushed toward Mo Chen's food box.
Liu Yueyue: "..."
She forgets her principles for the sake of food!
The three of them resumed their journey.
Zhou Qian ate her delicious braised pork knuckle, while Mo Chen and Liu Yueyue ate fruit. Mo Chen and Liu Yueyue had already eaten breakfast, but they couldn't just watch Zhou Qian eat, so Mo Chen prepared some fruit to share with Liu Yueyue.
And so, the three of them slowly climbed the mountain.
Mo Chen wasn't in a hurry. He believed that the real treasures were all inside the maze, and no one could possibly get there first.
"Give me another banana."
Liu Yueyue probably saw how much Zhou Qian was enjoying her food, and it made her hungry too.
"Here you go!"
Mo Chen handed over the banana.
But when he handed it over, something unexpected happened: the banana in his hand disappeared.
"Huh? Wow, that's impressive—stealing my banana right in front of me!"
"What's wrong?" Liu Yueyue turned around and asked.
"Watch out. There's a monkey."
Mo Chen glanced around warily. He had just clearly caught a glimpse of a monkey in his field of vision. It vanished in a flash, and the banana in his hand was naturally snatched away by that monkey.
The whole process was incredibly fast.
Mo Chen's domain only managed to detect it; he didn't even have time to react.
"What monkey?"
Liu Yueyue and Zhou Qian, who was eating braised pork knuckle, looked around in confusion. What was going on? Where did this monkey come from?
"A monkey just stole my banana. My field of vision only caught a glimpse of it before it disappeared. I didn't even have time to react."
Needless to say, this must be one of the three animals that appeared earlier, and it possessed a supernatural ability similar to teleportation.
"Monkeys? How come there are monkeys here?" Zhou Qian asked, gnawing on her pork knuckle.
Xiangshan is not Mount Emei, so where would any monkeys come from?
"There are even pigs here, so it's normal to have a monkey. Don't forget this is a secret realm," Mo Chen said.
"Then what should we do?" Liu Yueyue asked.
"They probably just want to eat the banana in my hand. There's no immediate danger. Just be careful."
After saying that, Mo Chen threw the remaining food boxes and fruit back into the apartment.
We can't let this monkey get away with this.
The entrance to the maze created by Mo Chen was at the top of the mountain, so as long as you reached the summit, you could enter the maze and obtain the Awakening Stone.
Perhaps the monkey knew that Mo Chen was on guard, because it never appeared again along the way, and the three of them reached the top of the mountain without any problems.
To Mo Chen's surprise, a dozen or so people had already gathered at the entrance of the cave on the mountaintop, discussing something.
"How do you plan to open this cave entrance?"